For nearly 2 years now I have been making out a weekly dinner menu every weekend for the next week. This is SO helpful to me! Honestly I don’t mind cooking, but I don’t like deciding what’s for dinner. So having "What’s for dinner?" planned out in advance (And posted on the fridge.) is a huge help to me! But after 2 years of doing this I started getting tired of trying to think up what we should eat for the week. So the family is now planning out the menu! What we do now is each week, each member of the family gets to chose one dinner meal. This gives us Mon – Friday scheduled out. (On the weekends we eat leftovers, eat out and/or my husband cooks.)

The family has been doing the menu now for a couple of months. One thing I noticed was that the kids kept picking the same meals over and over. So I sat down and made a list of all the things I could think of that I cook. I printed the list out and put it in a clear page protector on the side of the fridge. Now we can all review the list before we make our choice for the week.

amullersaid,

Hey Jamin! I do something similar. My husband gets paid every 2 weeks, so I'd have to come up with 2 weeks of meals at a time. I call mine my Master Dinner List and put it in my household notebook so I can find it quickly. Since coupons and master store lists are in there too it makes it easy to plan, shop and shop for bargains! :o)